Hello all! My name is Heather Martin. I grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California where I attended Los Amigos elementary school until 5th grade. I then went to Etiwanda Intermediate School for 6-8th grade before moving to the very small town of Yucaipa where I attended and graduated from Yucaipa High School. From there I went to Crafton hills college, a small Jr. College in the hills of Yucaipa. Then I found myself here at Cal State San Marcos. I lived here for a while but now I have the lovely pleasure of driving to school from Rancho Cucamonga, where I have recently moved. But I graduate in august, yeah! And I should have my credential by December; then it's off to face the real world for me.

As far as technology goes, I’m not the savviest person. But I have taken this course before so I am familiar with most of the assignments we'll be facing in this course. I’m crossing my fingers that my skills have improved as much as I think they have, so I can pass this course and graduate! I don’t use technology too much unfortunately. I check my school e-mail and have the guilty pleasure of checking my space account on a regular basis. Other than that I steer away from technology because it scares me. I usually have someone help me with anything involving technology. I use a pc at home but have some experience on a Mac from courses here at school. And as far as windows goes, I hate the new version! It’s confusing and frustrating especially since I have the old version at home.

The part of the mission statement that speaks to me is the part about collaboratively transforming public education. I feel that our public education system is definitely not up to par in many areas and is definitely in need of some positive transformation. Although the mission statement is a great one, I did not read it before I applied. I chose to attend cal state because of its outstanding reputation of educating future educators.